Beta-hemolytic Streptococcus milleri group misidentified as Streptococcus pyogenes on throat culture.

Pediatr Infect Dis J

Departments of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina Hospitals, Chapel Hill 27599-7225, USA.

Published: January 1999

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